I'm not as uneducated about speakers as you think I am. Even though early reflections are undesirable, constant directivity over most of the spectrum (down to at least 700 Hz) is more important for how natural the speakers sound than the angle at which they are designed to radiate (if the directivity varies), although narrow constant directivity speakers obviously behave better in small/untreated rooms. Any speakers with beaming treble will sound sound like shit unless your room is acoustically dead, in which case anything you put in there will sound like shit. You always get reflections, the point is to a) reduce the very early ones without killing the later ones b) make the reflections have similar frequency response as the direct sound, because in that case your brain will identify them as natural sources of sound in your room, making the stereo image sound real. This is the point of modern speakers with controlled directivity, speakers with beaming treble have been here for decades. Omnidirectional speakers do b) naturally and can get reasonably close to a) if you have a big room with decent treatment.